Papercuts final pod for 2019: Band on the Run

from Papercuts · host The Spinoff

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass. Band on the Run Can you believe this is our final episode for 2019? In this episode we give a scene report from the first Papercuts band-on-tour field trip where we headed to Wellington for the Verb Festival. And we bring you more book news, book reviews, discuss what we are looking forward to reading over summer, and more! Settle in with Jenna, Kiran and Louisa. Thank you to everyone who has listened to Papercuts, we have loved having you with us and will be back in 2020! BOOK NEWS: New Zealand Festival of the Arts - Writers programme - From Laurie Anderson and Andrea Lawlor to Jokha Alharthi and Tommy Orange - there is so much we want to see! https://www.festival.nz/events/writers/ Kiran's session with Booker International Prize winner Jokha Alharthi and Wellington writer Rijula Das Writing Women's Lives https://www.festival.nz/events/all/writing-womens-lives/ Goldsmiths Prize Winner: Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellman (Galley Beggar Press/Text Publishing) https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/prize2019/ducks-newburyport/ National Book Award winners https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/national-book-awards-susan-choi-wins-fiction-award-for-trust-exercise The Spinoff Book has been launched! https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-11-2019/its-alive-the-spinoff-book-is-published-today/ Sinead Gleeson wins award Bookselling Ireland Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019 at the An Post Irish Book Awards for her collection of essays Constellations. https://www.irishbookawards.irish/award/bookselling-ireland-non-fiction-book-of-the-year-2019/ As promised, a link to Kiran's NZ Herald interview with Sinead Gleeson. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12281683 And, as promised last episode, a link to Kiran's piece for The Spinoff about lathe cuts! https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/objectspace/objectspace-2019/03-11-2019/the-back-country-record-cutter-putting-new-zealand-music-on-plastic/ BOOK REVIEWS: KD: The Maytrees by Annie Dillard LK: The Boyfriend by Laura Southgate JT: The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson NOT BOOKS: KD/JT: Dolly Parton's America (Radiolab podcast) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radiolab-presents-dolly-partons-america LK: His Dark Materials series - An HBO and BBC... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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